Howdy folks!
Just a brief journal post to let you know my site now has a forum.
It can be found right here.

Come sign up and join in the discourse if you feel so inclined.
J.

Hi there!

The delightful Mr. Zombiehamster has done an interview with me at his site zombiehamster.com


Go there to read about ancaluvion, ridiculous hats, Samual L. Jackson, a near death experience and what I like to listen to while I work. And weasels.


J.

Hi all.
Yes, my website is now online, as from about an hour ago. Plenty of things in there for you to have a leisurely trawl through. I don't have a comments section on the Vortex journal quite yet, so feel free to use the "Make Contact" section or get hold of me via this myspace journal if you have any feedback.

Site can be found right here

Hi there all.
I've really been neglecting this blog for the last few months, and for that I apologize.
New things are coming up on the horizon for me, I shall fill you in on that soon, yes yes.
Til then, have a look at THIS!

J.

OK folks, here's the deal. I am running a wee competition on my twitter for the next 7 days. My twitter URL is http://twitter.com/JimmyMiz
Over the next 7 days I am going to tweet a selection of random lyrics from songs. First person to tell me which band wrote which song gets added to the winner tally. The person with the most correct entries after the week is up wins "awesome prize".
That is, they will win a hand drawn piccy of whatever the winner wishes.
Song lyrics will be posted with quotation marks ("") to differentiate them from the usual nonsense. This competition is not exclusive to those on twitter. If you're not on twitter simply email me he answer to song lyrics (include quoted lyrics with email please) to jimmymisanthrope@gmail.com
Its that simple.

Have fun!
~Jeemz~



*Edit*
01.03.09
3:58am
Well, the lyric contest is now officially over, thanks to all who participated. It was rather fun, I shall definitely do another one at some point down the line.
Below is a list of all the song lyrics I twittered, with the corresponding song titles and bands/solo artists.

"got hips like Cinderella, must be havin' a good shame... cookie I think you're tame"
Tame
Pixies

"Out on the winding, windy moors, We'd roll and fall in green."
Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush

"I hide my dirty minutes under my dirty mattress & they are making me itch"
Jizzlobber
Faith No More

"I took the first bus, out of coca cola city"
Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull
Refused

"I'm sick of tuning into rainbows."
Derail
Shihad

"I fly like paper, get high like planes"
Paper Planes
M.I.A.

"Do not go gently into that good night. Rage against the dying of the light. Your eyes are yours to close, never let go. Sleep Is Wrong"
Sleep Is Wrong
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

"Bitches love me cause they know that I can rock, bitches love me cause they know that I can rhyme"
Bitches
Mindless Self Indulgence

"I bet the monster was happy when we made him a maze. Cause he don’t understand intentions he just looks at your face"
Peacebone
Animal Collective

"I lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms. Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume. You can't fire me because I quit."
Scentless Apprentice
Nirvana

"My name is mud, but call me Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie. That's long for mud so I've been told."
My Name Is Mud
Primus

"Warm winds calling me a coward make me smile. They can't convince me now. Burned prayers turn me on to nowhere sick and empty."
Small Crimes
Failure

"Cos you're my girl, and that's alright. If you sting me I won't mind."
RX Queen
Deftones

"Devy in the corner of his teen year, born to run away. Children in the middle with the Village Idiot. So he never made the potty grade."
AAA
Strapping Young Lad

"Ronald McDonald just loves to be fondled. With Big Mac he'll fuck it like a Chicken McNugget"
Squeeze Me Macaroni
Mr. Bungle

"I'm looking California but feeling Minnesota"
Outshined
Soundgarden

"It's a Calypso, but it's not easy to know. You walk around with your shoulders down. Frowning. It's not easy to know."
Ape Dos Mil
glassJAw

"Have you been to the Cumberland gap? Fix your eyes on the green of the map. Where the Appalachians rise oh no. Oh no."
Mighty Joe Moon
Grant Lee Buffalo

"I believe them bones are me. Some say we're born into the grave. I feel so alone, gonna end up a big ole pile a them bones."
Them Bones
Alice In Chains

"He lives under the banyon tree. When I'm in trouble, he helps me. I hear him creep thru the leaves at night. His flesh is pink, but his fur, it's white snow white!"
Possum Of the Grotto
Rasputina

"Steve walks warily down the street with his brim pulled way down low. Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet. Machine guns ready to go."
Another One Bites The Dust
Queen

"You and me we're in this together now. None of them can stop us now. We will make it through somehow."
We're In This Together Now
Nine Inch Nails

"Fallacious cognitions, spewed from televisions, do mold our decisions. So stop and take a look, and you'll see what I see now."
New Skin
Incubus

"There comes a time within everyone to close your eyes to what's real. No comprehension to fail, I vacuum the wind for my sail"
Mouth For War
Pantera

The winner was Zombiehamster by the way.

Webcomics. Funny old things webcomics. God knows there's a hell of a lot of extremely shitty ones out there, but really, if someone puts in the time and effort to work on a comic then they have my respect and admiration, regardless of whether I personally like the comic.

The following comics definitely fall under the "I like, nay, love" category.
These are all comics that I have discovered this year (besides Serenity Rose) and all of them, in my opinion, are marvelous examples of the potential of webcomics to be truly wonderful, entertaining and inspiring things.
The main objective of this blog post is to hopefully expose some of this stuff to potential new readers. I should point out that I have a pretty wide reaching taste in things, and the only relation to each other that these disparate comix have is the fact that I think each and every one of them are bloody brilliant, and fine examples of the medium of sequential art.
Also, they're all available online to read for free.
Alright kids, pull up a comfy chair (I assume the one you've been sitting on up til now is made of wood, rocks and beavers) and focus those eyes of yours. Mayhap you're about to discover a comic or two that will change your lives.

First off:

Platinum Grit by Trudy Cooper & Danny Murphy.
The mighty Platinum Grit! It is with a total absence of hyperbole that I say that I absolutely adore this comic. Not since Serenity Rose came out have I come across anything so appealing to my sensibilities in the realm of comics.
I've been aware of its existance since sometime in the early ninties, but its only been this year that I read it. I'm so lame.
PG encompases so many different ideas and concepts that I find fascinating, from Jeremy and Nils' cancerous, symbyotic relationship, to scary magical creature activity in the bottom of a lake, an adorable little pig, nubile space girls, Kate and her long suffering, deadpan nihilism, a homicidal Scottish guy with a big sword, a cabnet that talks with a Jamiacan accent... it goes on and on really.
Sprawling and truly epic, the scope of the thing astounds and delights my rather jaded sensibilities. The writing is tight, snappy and sharp, and Trudy Cooper's art is evocative, emotionally gripping, and superbly drafted.
I mean, just check out this and this and this
The first few chapters are interesting, from part 3 onwards it starts to get reeeally cool, until about part 13 onwards, where it gets into absolutely awesome territory and just gets better and better from there on in.
One of my favourite things ever, period.

Alone In A Crowd  by Thomas D. Szewc
I love this comic. Its warm, heartfelt, and not lacking in the "emotional weight" department either. The nucleus of the comic revolves around a very chipper young girl named Hope, her newfound friend Faith (a somewhat shy young girl who just happened to be born with a pair of cat ears) and Faith's older sister Sara.
I can't quite put my finger on exactly why this comic appeals to me so much, it just does.
It has so much heart to it (without getting mawkish), its well written (clearly and concisely), the art is clean and very cute (cute without becoming sacchirine).
So a really well balanced set of elements.
Its only been running for a few months now so the storyline is still dealing with the preliminary inklings of the characters' makeup, which its doing in a very well paced and naturalistic way. I can see a great deal of potential percolating away in this comic.

minus by Ryan Armand
It's not often that I could describe something as being "whimsical" and mean it as a good thing, but this comic has whimsey in spades, and its awesome. A series of vignettes about a little girl with magical powers, tied together with various thematic threads. Young minus (always spelled in lower case) is probably the most powerful creature in this comic's world, but she often seems to just take it as a matter of course, and while she never uses her power for downright nastiness, she's certainly not adverse to using it towards some very creative mischief from time to time.
Armand employs a very eye pleasing technique of using coloured inks on illustration board to draw this comic, giving it a rather timeless feel. This comic has a touch of the "Little Nemo" vibe about it, but that's a fairly far reaching comparison I've just made, as minus is definitely its own thing. Its also the comic with the most "European" feel to it on this list.
A truly charming and original piece of work. I wish Armand would make some minus Tshirts, dagnabbit.  

Raymondo Person by Patrick Alexander
"His shit is great and out of control."
That little tag line that appears with the comic's title sums it up pretty well methinks. Its crude, misanthropic, sometimes violent, and definitely unfettered by the lily-livered restraints of political correctness. Its also fucking hilarious.
Its quite rare that an intentionally humourous comic is capable of making me laugh out loud on a regular basis, and out of all the comics on this list Raymondo is to me by far the funniest.
Scratch a little deeper under the bawdiness and bizarrity that constitutes main character Raymondo and his friends' sad and pathetic lives and you'll find a rather poignant streak to this comic, which raises everything else about it up a few notches.
Alexander is a cartoonist's cartoonist, with an excellent command of line and form. The artwork in Raymondo is snappy, clear and uncluttered, and the beauty of the way Raymondo is put together is that I never know what the hell is coming next in the storyline. And that's something that I can't say about most things.
In short, Raymondo Person rocks my socks!
Alexander also has a few other comics on his site, including one called Pink Chickens that he did for a kids' magazine a number of years ago, which I also find very appealing. Its a colour explosion to titillate the ocular orbs, for sure.

Serenity Rose in "Goodbye Cresfallen" by Aaron A
Yeah, myspace doesn't link to this site, which is ridiculous, but you can find it at
www.heartshapedskull.com
Okay, Serenity Rose is not a new discovery to me, but this SR story is in webcomic form, and it did start up this year, so on the list it goes.
Serenity Rose is right up there in my top 5 comic series' of all time, and for good reason. The quality of the writing and art is simply stunning, and the characters are a varied bunch indeed.
For those of you not in the know, Serenity Rose chronicles the life of a small, shy and introverted witch, and much of the story revolves around the inner machinations of her mind, how she perceives and relates to what is going on around her. The plot line is full of intriguing twists and turns, and full of wry observations on matters mundane and fantastical.
The coolest thing about SR are the subtle little touches Aaron A employs within it, the various names given to condiments on a store shelf, the occasional points of dialog that initially appear to be throwaway but later reveal themselves to be part of a bigger picture within the scheme of the overall plot, the way light falls perfectly on a forest of trees.
SR is a very dear thing to me, and Goodbye Crestfallen kicks everything up a few gears from the first SR series, in many wonderful ways.
If you printed it out on paper and then ate the paper, you would probably shit pure awesome for at least a week.

Art School Sub Rosa by Kayla Oliver
Alright! A comic from New Zealand! Yeee!
This one got really good really quickly. ASSR centres around Max, a student at the Wallingford Academy of Art, and she has a big seeeecret.
I won't get into the specifics of the plot and such, as I don't wish to let slip any spoilers, but I can say emphatically that this comic is a very fine example of the potential manga has when its done "right".
The art is really well done, with a flair that I don't come across often, the storyline constantly keeps me on my toes, and the concept is a very interesting one.
I am looking forward to seeing where this story goes next.
Ms Oliver is one talented critter, and she can draw in a variety of styles, go check out her deviantart if you'd like to see more of this fabulous individual's artistic endevours.

Godzilla Boy by ZombieHamster
Godzilla Boy!
One of life's downtrodden neon victims, the character Godzilla Boy is the epitome of a square peg in a world full of unforgiving round holes. There's a depth of pathos contained withing the twisted, surreal snapshots into GB and his sad existence that one mightn't expect to discover in a comic about a guy in a Godzilla costume, but its there, and its brilliant.
ZombieHamster once told me that he "hates his characters, and they deserve to suffer", which is fine and dandy with me, as suffer they do, and suffer they do well.

Girls With Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto
I discovered this one a number of months ago, via a friend's recommendation, and boy howdy, I'm sure glad I did.
The story revolves around two women in their mid 20's, Hazel and Jamie, their friends and life in general. It also features a Scottish/Irish cactus that can talk, in very entertaining ways. It updates every weekday, and how Corsetto can constantly come up with so much witty, fresh and unique material week after week is beyond me.
The artwork is warm, curvy, and spot on, the dialog is as sharp as a tack,  and the characters are an appealing and quirky collection of misfits. A fine example of top notch webcomickery.

The Abominable Charles Christopher by Karl Kerschl
This one almost didn't make the list, but only because of the fact that I just discovered it a few days ago. Kerschel summates TACC as "the adventures of a dim-witted yeti through a forest full of colourful animal characters."
Its a touching, sincere piece of work, with equal measures of humour and drama, and the artwork is gorgeous. I was hooked on it from the get go, and read the entire series thus far during the course of, hmm, about an hour or so? Its only been running for about a year, but the storyline sure is going places. My guess is its going to blossom into something very special indeed.

Well, that's it for the webcomics portion of this list.
Here are two print comics that I discovered this year and highly recommend.

Mephistos book 1 by Naniiebim
Part 1 of the Here Be Demons series, I bought this earlier this year, and have since read it a whole bunch of times. Mephistos chapter one: "belief zone blues" centres around a woman named Maria and her new neighbor Mephistos, who just so happens to be a demon. As this is chapter one in a series, its mainly dealing with setting up the premise, with small glimpses into the characters, its 56 pages long, and all of these pages are masterfully constructed.
Naniiebim has a very unique drawing style, she's quickly become one of my favourite artists. Check out this awesome drawing she did of Veronica and Saerico    :D
Go here to check out  her artwork, including some sample pages of  the book, and info on how to go about buying yourself a copy.

Chumble Spuzz by Ethan Nicolle.
I could bang on and on about how cool I think this comic is, but this guy has done a far better job at reviewing it than I could probably muster at this time of the day.

Its now around 4:30 in the AM, there's an oppressive blanket of humid wet hell surrounding me, and I have a bunch of comic work of my own to get done today.
Also, does anyone reading this have a twitter account?
I just started one up the other day, it can be found here:
http://twitter.com/JimmyMiz
It will contain more in the way of links to cool things and stuff and less in the way of me whittering on about what type of sandwich I had for lunch.
But primarily its just there to provide me with amusement, as I am, y'know, such a laugh riot and all.

Oh, and, uh, happy new year everyone.

I hope all the links I labouriously put together for this blog post work via myspace.

~Jimz~

Happy Halloween everyone!
Today I am pleased to present to you a short Halloween comic that I've grown rather fond of in the few weeks I've just spent making it.
I had the idea to do an AOTE Halloween comic a few months ago, for two reasons.
The first reason being that I wanted to have a go at doing an AOTE comic in full colour, which could stand on its own as a seperate entity from the main AOTE storyline. The second reason is that I wanted to put something out there for my readers to fill in the gap a bit between the end of AOTE3 and the start of AOTE4.
Of course, all the time I've spent making this comic has taken up time that I would have otherwise spent working on AOTE4, so unfortunately the release of part 4 is going to be delayed a while.
I'll just mention here too that once AOTE4 has been completed I'll be posting it up online at a page per week, and it will run straight into part 5 the week after part 4 ends. This should put an end to the hideous gaps of months between each part. I want to get the majority of the work done on AOTE4 prior to releasing the first page as I want to be well ahead of myself in case I get sick or something, so there won't be any hiccups in the page per week schedule.

Also, doing this comic has been a nice break for me from the main AOTE storyline, which is starting to get pretty... intense. Which is pretty much in direct contrast to this comic, which is by far one of the silliest things I've ever written.

Special thanks go out to Tom and Aaron for letting me use their comic characters in "wall poster cameos", and to my friends in the photographs.

And now, without further ado, heeeere's the...










In case anyone might be wondering, the species of critter featured in the comic are called tewts. Tewts were once used extensively as familiars for practitioners of ancient goblin magic, and in certain spurious rituals contained  within said magic. Their full name in goblinish is katchaitewt.
TEWT is also a military acronym for Tactical Exercise Without Troops, and the name of a glassjaw song, but that has nothing to do with anything here.

I wish you all an enjoyable Halloween.
Jimmy.

Cripes, it's been a while since I've updated this thing, hasn't it?
I'll put that down to the all encompassing workload I currently have on at the moment, and the fact that blog posts of my recent activity would run along the lines of: "wake up, work on comics for 14 hours, watch a movie maybe, talk gibberish on online chat from time to time, work on constructing robot gopher army in basement, maybe sleep for a bit, wake up, repeat."
Kinda boring to relate to others in a blog eh?

However, there are a couple of recent happenings in the general Agents Of The Endtimes "sphere of goings on" that warrant a mention.


Firstly, the good folks at Literate Machine recently contacted me to see if I wanted to promote AOTE via there site, to which I said "sure thing".
So now you can follow this link to go to my section on the Literate Machine site, where you can download AOTE parts 1-3 in pdf format for FREE. Yay!
Special thanks to Sarah for transferring each issue into pdf format & uploading them for me. You're very lovely for doing that for me.
So yes, follow the link and download them issues and spread them around like some kind of pernicious airborne pathogen to anyone that you think may be interested if you pleazzz.
There's quite a number of cool comics on that site by various comic making persons, its well worth spending some time browsing through the list of delights contained therein. Oh, this is their myspace too.


The other new development of note is that I finally have AOTE Tshirts available for your buying and wearing pleasure. There are two designs to start with, more will be added sometime in the not tooo distant future.
Clicky clicky to check 'em out. Both designs are available in the standard Tshirt format, and also in the "girly tee" type.
Somebody buy one & conceive a child whilst wearing it, that'd be awesome.

In other news, work on drawing/rendering AOTE4 is coming along nicely. There's a whole lot of stuff involved in this one.
 I'll be putting that up online at a page per week once I have a certain amount of pages completed. That should start up in a couple of months time, and there's bound to be a blog post mentioning when and where it will start.

And lastly, but definitely not leastly, I got a truly awesome piece of fan art from the scarily talented Naniiebim the other day.



Wow. Just wow.

If you haven't already done so, there's a fan art section in the AOTE myspace photos that features a bunch of renditions of AOTE characters by various talented types, that is very much worth checkin' out. It really gives me a huge buzz to see other people's take on my guys. I should prolly mention that if you, dear reader, have any AOTE fanart that you'd like to share, email it to me at jimmymisanthrope@gmail.com & I'll put it up in the fan art pics.
Please include what name you would like to be credited as, and the URL to your website, if you have one.

Righto, I'm gonna get back to work.
"Have a good one" all.
~Jimmy Miz~

A Misanthropic interviewww

Hi all.
Below is a transcript of an interview with me that was recently conducted by Mr. Adam Beranek

Adam Beranek: First off...what is your secret to rocking so hard?
Jimmy Misanthrope: Umm.. I have no idea how to answer that question without sounding like I'm full of myself. Self deprecation is a hallmark of my country's culture. But thanks for being so complimentary.
I guess I'm able to do what I do because I have a hyperactive imagination* coupled with an ability to focus that imagination into something cohesive enough to make stories out of. I've spent the last few years honing my writing and drawing skills to the point where I'm starting to be happy with my competance in conveying those stories through the medium of comic books.
*an imagination that never seems to be able to shut up. I constantly daydream, always have. This is why I am so bad at math. I remember as a child during math classes at school ignoring what the teacher was trying to teach me as I was too preoccupied with pretending that the eraser on my pencil was a dog.

AB:  When did you first come up with Agents?
JM: It was some time in late 2001. I had a dream about a little pigtail wearing, freckled fairy type girl. When I woke up from the dream I quickly did a drawing of her, and over the next few days her character started coming to me. That girl became Starla, who, incidentally, I named after an old semi-obscure Smashing Pumpkins song.
During the next week I thought up the whole AOTE premise.
Because Starla's personality was turning out to be so vivacious, I felt it would be good to create a character to counterbalance her, and thus Fubar began to materialise in my mind. Also, Fubar became a fine character for me to voice the cynical side of my nature through. Ha!
 The basic design of Fubar and Starla was lurking about in two older characters of mine, the fairies Min and Spivz, who were characters in my bitter little vampire comic Vitriolia.
I originally created Marnie so I could have someone that I could explain certain things about how the Agents premise worked to the reader through her, rather than resorting to hideously blatent exposition. But she's evolved into so much more than that.
I've really grown to love that character, she's everything that is good in me.

AB:  Was it a fever dream?
JM: It was one of the most important dreams I've ever had in my life, so hopefully it wasn't microbe induced. They might want royalties..

AB:  How much of your personal life is reflected in your characters?
JM: On the surface, not a great deal. It manifests itself in subtle ways.
I've been developing most of the AOTE characters in my mind for a number of years now, so certain experiences (and the impact of emotions I have felt from those experiences) in my life are bound to have rubbed off on them.
 For example, people have asked me if the relationship between Starla and Fubar is in any way a reflection of relationships I may have had, which it isn't really. It's more a reflection of the relationship I have with myself in my own mind, heeheehee.
My characters' personalities are facets of my own personality, with observations that I've made about other people mixed in, so in that sense they're all very close to me.

AB:  Loved the flash of color in the club scene in AOTE3.... what inspired the Wizard of Oz type moment?
JM: I wanted to show the reader how lively and colorful the club goers were, which obviously would have been impossible to convey in black and white, so doing a big panel in color was the only way to do it really. Also I wanted to give the reader a wee suprise by revealing this big colorful image in the midst of all the greytones.
(this is the page in question folks)

AB: What music inspired such kick ass scenes in the new installment?
JM: Oh, a whole bunch of stuff. For the club scene I was listening to a lot of drum n bass and dark trance music, especially Dieselboy.
For the murder scene I used bands like Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, New Way Home, Carthaginian Solution and Dillinger Escape Plan to help me get into the right headspace to do it. All those bands have a certain beautific brutality and epic scope to them which I find extremely appealing.
The scene with the conversation between Fubar and Chloe didn't require any specific style of music to help me set the tone. I remember listening to a great deal of Kate Bush, Stolen Babies, Grotus and Mr. Bungle while I was doing that scene. And The Birthday Massacre. And theSTART.
With the rendering, because it takes so long to do, I generally listen to whatever I feel like listening to at the time, its only the line art drawing that requires certain music to help me get in the right mindset.

AB:  If you lived in this world you created...where would you fit in?  Who would be your buds....who would you wanna jump on the love boat with...and who would you wanna punch with a cheese grater?
JM: I'd probably get along well with Starla and Fubar, as they're closest in personality to me. I honestly haven't a clue who I'd want to "ride on the love boat with"... most likely none of them. Starla's father would definitely be the character I'd enjoy punching with a cheese grater the most.

AB:  Loved the polaroid montages...should bottles of liquor be sold with polaroid cameras to document such craziness?
JM: Well, the idea of having polaroid images in that sequence pretty much struck me as the best way to show the pictures in question as being photographs.
It doesn't really make sense that beings in another dimension, with far more developed technology than humans would use something as antiquated as polaroid cameras, but as polaroids have that distinct white border I knew that people would pick up straight away that they're meant to be photos.

As for bottles of liquor being combined with polaroid photography, although I decided not to make it clear to the reader, its only Marnie who has been drinking anything intoxicating in that scene. Starla is merely giddy on having fun in that sequence, so it could work either way I guess. 
I hear Polaroid have stopped making cameras and film. That makes me sad.

 AB: Seeing as how you rule your island of New Zealand...any chance you will venture out to conquer new lands?
JM: I'm planning on moving to Australia in the nearish future. Also, Japan and the USA are two countries that are high on my list of new lands I'd love to visit.

AB:  Favorite movie?
JM: Changes often. There's a large number of movies which I absolutely adore. Right now my fave movie would have to be El Laberinto del Fauno, aka Pan's Labyrinth.
Guillermo del Toro... the man's a genius.

AB: Favorite food?
JM: Can't beat warm, freshly baked blueberry muffins. Yummmm

AB:  If you had to lose a hand...or a foot....what would it be?
JM: Foot. Although having recently dislocated my knee for the second time, I have a small understanding of how much it would truly suck to lose a foot. There would be many things that I'd have to readapt myself to doing.

AB:  What superpower would you want?
JM: The ability to destroy entire cities with sarcasm alone.

AB: Are you working on more Agents soon?
JM: Yessir, I'm just sorting out the dialog for part 4 at the moment. I've decided that from the start of part 4 onward I'm going to put a page per week up online, rather than my previous method of putting up a 24 page issue in its entirety every 5 months when I finish each issue.
So part 4 will start later on this year. I'm having a lot of fun with this one, as it focuses on the villains.

AB:  What else are you working on?
JM: Started work this week on designing some AOTE Tshirts, which should be available in the near future. I also have a twisted little picture book called Anhedonia which I'm just starting work on. And I have a couple of writing projects in the works, plus a couple of personal art projects, such as painting a portrait of my sister and her husband as a wedding gift, which I reeeally need to get on to.
And there's a smattering of commission work to do too.
So yeah, that's me, perennially busy.



...keeps me off the streets & out of the clock towers.